the mode share of cycling has gone down in the netherlands over the last 30 years. 12% of average income households are car-free; it's 25% overall and 6% for the wealthy. this is despite the mode share of cycling in amsterdam increasing 50% in the same period. even with a cycling network fully connecting the southern half of the country, decent connectivity in the north, road design in the major cities that is intentionally hostile to intra-city car commutes, and an ostensibly pro-cycling commuter culture, people don't want to bike more than a couple miles if they can afford not to.

if you want to shape the behaviors of the world's people as you suggest, you'll need fascism. hard sell when there are already two paths to clean energy abundance, two paths to sustainable driving, and many paths to damage control competing in the public discourse.

Its exactly those type of people who call biking fascism who (once it will get tough) will bring fascism as only viable solution. Handmaids tale style.

People biking are just happily chugging along. They are not the fascists.

Taxing externalities != Fascism